How Self-Esteem Increases With Meditation
Self-esteem is a process of our thoughts that tells us how important and worthy we are. It depends on how many positive thoughts we have cultivated for ourselves. It can be enhanced in various effective ways. Meditation is one of the best ways to meditate to have better self-esteem.
Present self-esteem is the result of your past experiences. If you are attached to unprocessed negative past experiences and consider yourself not worthy, it is one of the biggest signs you are suffering from low self-esteem.
This article will help you to cope with this problem for an amazing future life.
Before we understand the process of how meditation increases our self-esteem, we should know better about Self-esteem itself.
What is Self-esteem and How Does It Work?
Sometimes people praise us for our looks, intelligence, and wisdom and we feel more confident in ourselves. On the opposite side sometimes we face criticism and we feel low and lose confidence. All this happens because of our self-esteem.
Human beings have two types of confidence. One type of confidence is ordinary. When someone praises us we become happy and feel more confident. This is because of ordinary confidence.
On the other side, self-esteem is different from ordinary confidence. It is not flexible like ordinary confidence. It remains constant most of the time. This type of confidence comes from deep self-awareness and understanding.
We are built from our past experiments. We look, practice, and observe things through the filters of our past experiences. Some bad experiences can create self-doubts, inferiority, and even depression.
Self-esteem is the state of being rational, accepting limitations, and being comfortable with your current version of who you are. Meditation helps to manage your self-esteem at a higher level and provides clarity about yourself. This is how self-esteem works.
How Does Meditation Build Self-esteem?
Self-esteem can be derived through self-awareness. Self-esteem is not something that can be achieved after a lot of effort. It is the state we can achieve through understanding our consciousness and self-awareness.
Due to our hectic and busy routines, we can not pay attention to our self-awareness. Sitting peacefully and following your conscious thoughts will allow you to observe your inner self. Self-awareness allows us to accept ourselves.
When we get to know ourselves we become friends with ourselves. We understand our abilities and weaknesses in a better sense.
A true self-understanding is a key to clarify your inner doubts and misunderstanding about yourself. Those misconceptions about yourself were creating self-doubts and low self-esteem.
A better understanding of your abilities clears your thoughts from misconceptions and restores your self-esteem. Self-esteem enhances your abilities and provides clarity in your futuristic life.
Transform Negative Thoughts Into Positive Thoughts
Negative thoughts have worse effects on our overall well-being. We focus on bad events happening in our life. It makes morale low and decreases self-esteem. Most people with low esteem suffer a lot in their practical life.
People with low self-esteem have self-doubts that come with negative thoughts. People with negative thoughts produce more negativity that impacts our productivity.
Converting negative thoughts into positive ones brings new energy in life and enhances self-esteem in someone’s life.
Meditation To Heal Yourself
Meditation calms you as well as heals you from past experiences. A person with regrets in life enhances self-doubts and decreases productivity.
Meditation heals yourself with calmness and enhances productivity levels. The person with a calm mind does not doubt him/herself. Having regret is one of the biggest non-physical burdens that a person holds. With that burden, we can not move freely to our life and achieve goals.
Fix You Thoughts and Beliefs
People suffer from negative thoughts and beliefs. Those thoughts and beliefs limit a person’s abilities.
Through meditation and a rational mindset, we can fix our limited mindset to a growth mindset. With this growth and self-acceptance mindset, we can overcome self-esteem issues with meditation.
Meditation stops you from random thoughts and rearranges your thought process according to you. You can build a positive mindset that will allow you to accept yourself as you are and restore your inner self-esteem.
Manage Anxiety
Anxiety comes from past experiences or future fears. We often disturb our present for the sake of future fears and past bad experiences. We stuck ourselves with the fears that do not exist in the present.
Anxious thoughts create a big gap in maintaining self-esteem. People with anxiety face a lack of motivation, confidence, and self-esteem.
Meditation is the best tool to lower anxiety and anxious thoughts. That helps to maintain and restore self-esteem. Meditation stops the thought process for a time and allows you to focus on your present.
Face your Fears
As human beings, we develop fears just from our observations. Sometimes these fears are nothing but our mental perceptions. When we perform meditation, allow our inner self to judge situations rationally, these fears disappear.
We face these fears as misconceptions when we calmly observe. Meditation is the best way that helps us to face these misconceptions and overcome our fears.
We are always stuck in our daily jobs and household routines. We don’t have time to judge those fears and try to tackle them. While sitting in a peaceful place observing our breaths provide us plenty of time to manage fears and take a further step in our life.
Focus On Possibilities & Opportunities
Low self-esteem is one of the powerful effects to decrease hope and confidence in someone’s life. The person with low self-esteem suffers from low confidence and the power of making decisions.
With meditation, when we become self-aware and convert our mindset to the growth mindset, we can change our focus from lack of opportunities to the abundance of possibilities.
Abundance and growth mindset improve confidence and decision-making power. Through meditation, we enhance our mental approach that increases self-esteem.
Accepting Your Thoughts
A person faces sixty thousand thoughts a day. There are multiple negative thoughts included in them. We can not just replace all thoughts at once but we can accept them and try to focus on good ones.
Self-esteem decreases when people focus on negative thoughts and skip the good ones. Through meditation, we accept all our thoughts with kindness and can put focus on positive vibes.
Positive thoughts throw energy into our inner self that empowers our self-esteem and confidence.
Remove Mind Fog
Most people suffer from mental fog and face a lack of mental clarity. That situation creates a lack of self-esteem. Meditation relaxes your mind muscles and provides mental clarity.
People suffering from the mind fog face a lack of self-esteem. Meditation improves mental clarity that improves self-esteem in human beings. Meditation is one of the best effective tools to remove mind fog and bring mental clarity to be self-aware.
Self Acceptance Is A Journey
A person who knows his abilities and has mental clarity makes better and clear decisions about his life with confidence. Shaken self-beliefs and self-doubts are the biggest creativity killers in human beings.
Whenever we sit calmly, take long breaths and focus on inhaling and exhaling, it allows us to accept ourselves. Self-acceptance is the key to self-esteem. Most of the time we try to become someone else instead of being ourselves. This creates self-doubt and low self-esteem.
Meditation is the best tool for self-acceptance and enhancing your creativity level and living life to its fullest.
Enhance Confidence
Self-doubts and beliefs of not being enough, kill the inner confidence. It shakes confidence that only can be restored by self-acceptance. Self-acceptance allows us to move further without losing confidence.
How to Meditate to Enhance Self-Esteem
Luckily, here at Yoga Stars we teach meditation extensively and love to share a plethora of tools for you to use in a practical way.
First, you need to find a calm place to sit. Start taking long breaths with the nose and exhale the breaths with the mouth. Focus on your inhaling, exhaling, and the flow of your breaths.
Take a breath slowly and count for 1 to 5. Hold on to your breaths for 5 seconds and release them through your mouth slowly.
While breathing practice, focus on your breath and heart. After a few minutes, you will be successful in controlling your thoughts. You will face distraction with various other thoughts coming into your mind.
Do not punish yourself because of random thoughts that distract your mind. It’s common to face difficulty controlling your thoughts during meditation. While focusing on your breaths, start saying some words in your heart.
Those magical words are: I am confident, I believe in myself, I am kind and creative, and I accept what I am.
These words will create a sense of kindness and calmness in your inner self.
This activity will help you more in the morning. After meditation, you can go into your practical workspace with a smile and confidence. It will help you throughout the day and strengthen your belief in yourself for the long term.
Why Does Someone Lose Self-esteem?
We become what we feel and what type of company we have in our life. In life, we have to face various people who have some negative thought patterns and that will have a bad effect on us.
That company can be our family, friends, or our co-workers. When people don’t encourage us and underestimate our abilities, we start self-doubting ourselves.
This type of self-doubting brings long-term negative results to our personalities. It decreases our self-esteem eventually. Self-esteem decreases our confidence, creativity, and productivity. Meditation is the best resource to restore self-esteem in ourselves.
Most of the time when someone says don’t do it, you can not do it, or I don’t trust you. These words affect you more than anything else. It decreases self-esteem for a longer period.
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